Failure pattern and factors predictive of local failure in Rhabdomyosarcoma: A report of group III patients on the third intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1902-1908

  Wharam, Moody D ^a   Meza, Jane ^a   Anderson, James ^a   Breneman, John C ^a   Donaldson, Sarah S ^a   Fitzgerald, Thomas J ^a   Michalski, Jeff ^a   Teot, Lisa A ^a   Wiener, Eugene S ^a   Meyer, William H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR BIOPSY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3042745487     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.08.124     Document Type: Article

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